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WHO DO THEO END UP WH GOLDFCH? CONFIRA ISTO | THE GOLDFCH GAY
The circumstantial evince that they are gay seems pretty strong, but where is the smokg gun? And if Hobie is gay do that mean that his surprisgly strong attachment to Theo is more than platonic? If she hedg her bets by makg them bisexual like Theo and Boris or entirely homosexual like Welty and Hobie then she has an answer when someone (like herself) might qutn whether her male characters tly feel like mal.
Readg this novel through a queer/genr studi lens and the e of a dialogic journal reveals that this story is a reprentatn of the tennci gay-d characters are portrayed as through the e of specific lerary elements and tentnal subtext. Wh that said, I fd unfortunate that there are ltle lerary cricisms dited to the pictn of Theo and Boris’s relatnship throughout the novel, nor is there much nsiratn of the novel’s gay-d characters and subtext. Genr studi lens is fed as “a velopment of a soclogil unrstandg of genr and askg if, how, and why social procs, standards, and opportuni differ systematilly for women and men” (Genr Lens) while a queer studi lens is scribed as a cril theory that “follows femist theory and gay/lbian studi rejectg the ia that sexualy is an sentialist tegory, somethg termed by blogy or judged by eternal standards of moraly and tth” (Harris).
Kath and Sophia Woodward, thors of “Genr Studi and Interdisciplary, ” addrs the siari of each lens and how they often go hand--hand, “the shift towards genr studi also reflects a wing tellectual base, cludg psychosocial as well as psychoanalytil theori, poststcturalist, postlonial studi, cril studi of masculy, queer studi and LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer…” (Woodward). In their article “Homophobia Amerin Gay-Themed Young Adult Novels (2000-2010), ” Nachanok Hutanan wr about the fluence of fay on a child’s genr or sexual inty: “There are very few ntemporary LGBTQ-themed juvenile novels that extensively feature homophobia wh fai, particular that which is enacted by parental characters and their gay children’s stggl to al wh ” (88). They expla that faial homophobia lerature is not always immediately outright wh s homophobia, but rather an act where “parents attempt to mold their sons” (93).